Vending device.



` l No.'soe,572.

, claimed.

IINITEI) "sTATEs PATENT OEEIOE."

RICHARD' OWEN ROBLIN, or ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

' VENDINGDEVICE. i

I Specification of Letters Patent.

I Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

Application filed May 17, 1905. Serial N0. 260,798.

To all whom it mag/concern.-

Beit known that LRIGHARD OWEN RoBLIN,a citizen of the United States, resid ing at Roches# ter, in the county of Monroe and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Im provements in Vending Devices; and I d o hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in 'the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in vending devices, although it may also be used for different purposes.

It consists in theconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter described and The object'for which the invention is primarily designed is to promote the introduction and Vsale of merchandise, especially ofthat class which is retailed in separate pieces or packages at a uniform price-as chewinggum, forexample. .y 4'

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a top plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of a portion thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective-view of oneof the removable staples, and Fig. 4: is a view of ve colored barbs of the staples used in myinvention. l f

as represents the top of a box, which is preferably made of pasteboard. This box is hollow and has closed sides, ends, bottom, and top. Within the box one or more layers of stiffening material b are used, preferably made The staples having bronze-colored ends rep-l resent a package of chewing-gum, for exam.

of ordinary sti corrugatedpaper.

c represents the removable staples, which have thereon points, as shown at d, and barbs, as shown at e. These staples-are preferably madeof metal. The lower ends of these staples have different colors upon them-yellow, red, blue, green, and bronze, for example.

ple. The others represent varIous prizes, ranging in value from one cent to twenty-five cents. Of course the staples representing the higher values are fewer in number. In an ordinary device there are ive hundred of these staples, four hundred with bronzecolored ends and the remaining one hundred with yel-A low, red, blue', or green colored ends. On the top of the box a are a number ofbroken lines c, each just the length of., the width of a staple. These may be arranged in any desired relation to each other; but I have shown them in the form of spirals nearly concentric with each apparatus.

each other, the arrangement. being such that i the live hundred staples may be neatly, compactly, and regularly arranged on the ytop of the box.

.The staples c are lmade of sufficient length that when passed down through the top'of the box and into the corrugated paper bthey will 1 project far enough above the top of the boxv so that they may easily be grasped by the thumb and foreinger of the purchaser and pulled out, thus obviating the necessity of furnishing a separate extracting device withv In use each person pays one cent or any other sum agreed upon and pulls outastaple,

receiving a package of gum or a prize, def

pending upon the color of the'staple pulled out -by him. Y

. Having thus described my invention, .what I claim as new, and desire toobtain by Letters Patent, is-l '1. The combination of a box made of easilyperforated material and pointed staples hav-V ing dierent-colored-ends adapted to be in serted in the top of said box, substantially as described. f j

2. A vending device made in the form of a hollowl pasteboard box with stiening matev rial in its interior and removable staples adapted to be inserted in the top ofl said box, which staples have pointed, barbed lends of different colors, substantially as described.

3. A vending device made in the form of a hollow box provided with stiffening material inside yand with a series of short lines on its top and removablemetal staples of substantially the same width as the length of said lines and adapted to be inserted through the top of said box, said staples having pointed and barbed ends of different colors, substantially as described.

4. A vending device made in the form of av hollow box provided with a corrugated paper lining and removable staples adapted to be inserted. into the top of said box and lining, said staples having pointed, barbed endsof different colors, and of a suiiicientlength so that they willproject above the top of the box to serve as handles, substantially'as described.

In testimony whereofI aiiixV my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RICHARD OWEN ROBLIN.

Witnesses:

F. K. SHEAN, A. FRANK WARREN.

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